Following our previous update last week, we have now unfortunately had multiple further staff members who need to self-isolate or who are unwell with covid (including 2 nurses and 6 GPs), meaning we will be significantly understaffed this coming week.
We appreciate that all of our patients try to be considerate when contacting us normally, but would ask that for this week, and especially tomorrow (Monday) if you could only contact us if you feel your issue is a serious problem or an emergency, this will help to ensure that the limited GP time we can provide goes to the most appropriate patients / problems.
We have been lucky to get this far into the pandemic without this level of absence, however with the increasing covid levels in the community, and large numbers of patients we have been needing to see face to face, it seems inevitable it would perhaps happen here at some point as it has in so many other surgeries in recent months.
Thankyou all once again for your support at this trying time, we can assure you we are doing everything we can to mitigate the effects of these issues, and we are doing our best to source locum GPs at this time of high demand, but our options are currently very limited and we will need to prioritise urgent care for our most vulnerable patients in the coming days.
We appreciate that all of our patients try to be considerate when contacting us normally, but would ask that for this week, and especially tomorrow (Monday) if you could only contact us if you feel your issue is a serious problem or an emergency, this will help to ensure that the limited GP time we can provide goes to the most appropriate patients / problems.
We have been lucky to get this far into the pandemic without this level of absence, however with the increasing covid levels in the community, and large numbers of patients we have been needing to see face to face, it seems inevitable it would perhaps happen here at some point as it has in so many other surgeries in recent months.
Thankyou all once again for your support at this trying time, we can assure you we are doing everything we can to mitigate the effects of these issues, and we are doing our best to source locum GPs at this time of high demand, but our options are currently very limited and we will need to prioritise urgent care for our most vulnerable patients in the coming days.
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